Chelsea Clinton not ruling out political career

In an interview with Vogue magazine, Chelsea Clinton opens up about her life in the spotlight and the possibility of following in her parent's footsteps by running for public office someday. NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reports.

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>>clinton has spent most of her life in the spotlight. amazingly she has never granted an interview until now. in a surprisingly candid interview in the september issue "vogue" she talks about her life and the possibility she will follow in her parents' footsteps and run for
public office
herself someday.
andrea mitchell
has more on this. good morning.

>> reporter: good morning. from the moment she was born,
chelsea clinton
has been a public figure. though she and her parents have done their best to keep her
personal life
private she opened up to vogue and saying she is now trying to lead a personally
public life
.
chelsea clinton
was born into politics but not of it. with her father already governor of arkansas, she was instantly in the
public eye
. but her parents fiercely guarded the privacy of their only child. in her first wide ranging interview, 32-year-old
chelsea
opened up to vogue saying i've been aware of how extraordinarily normal and how extraordinarily extraordinary my life has been.

>>she spent the last 32 years of her life not doing interviews. when she finally decided to do it she went all in giving me three months, basically access to all quarters of her life.

>>this is a side of
chelsea
rarely seen. her love of coffee, books, and running, which she calls the one part of my life in which i fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed. sheltered through most of the
1992
campaign, she made her first grand appearance at
madison square garden
when her father was being nominated. in the
white house
the family still shared family dinners. she tells vogue they organized their lives so we could have that time, wherever they were. at least one of them would fly home to be with me. spring breaks were exotic trips, bosnia and india. there would be difficult times, too, for the family. but
chelsea
tells vogue the blessings outweighed. campaigning with her mother, we hading to childhood friend. strongly influenced by her grandmother
dorothy rodham
who died last november,
chelsea
started augmenting her graduate work with a career in philanthropy and then journalism as a
special correspondent
for nbc news.

>>do you remember the moment when you believed you could have a different future?

>>now for the first time clinton also reveals someday she may join the
family business
, politics saying, if there were to be a pint where it was something i felt called to do, then that would be a question i would have to ask and answer.

>>i think usa she's kind of the sole heir to her parents' legacy, which is huge, it's almost like she has no choice step up to the plate.

>>hillary clinton
was 32,
chelsea
's age, when she gave birth to her only child. standing in,
chelsea
joked about
building a better
world for the grandchildren her mother hopes to have, something
chelsea
says she looks forward to if her mom can wait. vogue hits news stands
august 21st